The New Physiognomy:Face, Form, and Mode Expression (Hopkins Studies in Modeism)
by: Rochelle Rives (Author)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date: April 9, 2024
Language: English
Print Length: 264 pages
ISBN-10: 1421448378
ISBN-13: 9781421448374
Book Description
A fascinating new study of the face, form, and history of expression.Advances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial expressivity and how we interpret it. In The New Physiognomy, Rochelle Rives roots contemporary facial dilemmas in a more expansive timeline of modeist engagements with the face to argue that facial ambiguity is essential to how we value other people.Beginning with nineteenth-century caricatures of Oscar Wilde’s face, Rives reasons that modeist modes of reading the face perceived it as a manifestation of both biologically determined traits and scripted forms of personality. Considering faces such as sculptures of great poets, portraits of facially wounded World War I soldiers, W. H. Auden’s aging face, and Cindy Sherman’s recent photographic self-portraits, Rives reframes how to read modeist works by Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Joseph Conrad, Mina Loy, Henry Tonks, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
A fascinating new study of the face, form, and history of expression.Advances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial expressivity and how we interpret it. In The New Physiognomy, Rochelle Rives roots contemporary facial dilemmas in a more expansive timeline of modeist engagements with the face to argue that facial ambiguity is essential to how we value other people.Beginning with nineteenth-century caricatures of Oscar Wilde’s face, Rives reasons that modeist modes of reading the face perceived it as a manifestation of both biologically determined traits and scripted forms of personality. Considering faces such as sculptures of great poets, portraits of facially wounded World War I soldiers, W. H. Auden’s aging face, and Cindy Sherman’s recent photographic self-portraits, Rives reframes how to read modeist works by Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Joseph Conrad, Mina Loy, Henry Tonks, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
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